Brackets go there? Oops. That’s not where I used them and now things are broken
Who, Me? Weird syntax AND/OR a junior techie can be very bad for business
Devops06 Jan 2025 | 81
Software
Broadcom filing mentions major VMware Cloud Foundation releases in March and July
Will they make price rises palatable? Or bring more of what new Netflix lawsuit calls Broadcom's ‘Buy. Chop up. Raise prices' business plan?
Virtualization06 Jan 2025 | 5
How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software
Opinion Even Microsoft's lead architect misunderstood the failure
OSes05 Jan 2025 | 185
Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators
New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA
Science05 Jan 2025 | 12
Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files
And, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution
Personal Tech04 Jan 2025 | 32
With datacenter power crisis looming, US government looks to Constellation
Not just AWS, Microsoft et al that are betting on nuclear energy, 13 federal agencies get in on act too
On-Prem03 Jan 2025 | 10
US logic in question, but perhaps American memory can still prevail
Comment With Intel's foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push
Storage03 Jan 2025 | 10
How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC
Feature A somewhat savvy hardware move may have hurt street cred of an important language
Software03 Jan 2025 | 283
Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust
Mini-C is a subset of C that can be automatically turned to Rust without much fuss
Software03 Jan 2025 | 117
Accenture wins £35M more UK tax work without competition despite promise to 'disaggregate'
System which went live in 2009 cannot be supported by another supplier, tax collector says
Applications03 Jan 2025 | 8
Stumbling ERP project racks up sales losses greater than budget
South African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements
Databases03 Jan 2025 | 6
Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 69
LA deputies dogged by New Year date glitch in patrol car PCs
SoCal plod resort to paper logs after system that top brass was warned would 'inevitably fail' did exactly that
Bootnotes03 Jan 2025 | 57
25 years on from Y2K, let's all be glad it happened way back then
Comment With today’s connected tech, a similar-scale bug would be hard to squash
Software02 Jan 2025 | 121
It's been 20 years since Oracle bought two software rivals, changing the market forever
Feature After lawsuits and poison pills, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards failed to resist the lure of Larry's ambition
Databases02 Jan 2025 | 19
With 10 months of support remaining, Windows 10 still dominates
Statcounter figures show Windows 11 losing user love
OSes02 Jan 2025 | 69
Edgio bankruptcy results in endpoint change for Microsoft
That strange time between Christmas and New Year – perfect for changing production projects
Devops02 Jan 2025 | 13
Workday on lessons learned from Iowa and Maine project woes
Interview Nine in ten of our implementations are a success, CEO Carl Eschenbach tells The Reg
SaaS02 Jan 2025 | 11
AWS follows Iceberg path to unite analytics platform
Analysis But other obstacles remain before developers get free choice of storage and analytics engines
Databases02 Jan 2025 |
A New Year's gift from Microsoft: Surprise, your scanners don't work
Canon confirms multifunction devices struggling with Windows 11 24H2
OSes02 Jan 2025 | 79
Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid
Report charts four scenarios from 'Sustainable AI' to 'Who Turned Out The Lights?'
On-Prem02 Jan 2025 | 60
Can 4G feature phones rise again on the back of QVGA, thin clients, and remote browsers?
The developer of the Puffin Browser thinks so – and has a million users to show for it
Personal Tech02 Jan 2025 | 32
Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did
Opinion 2024's Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor
Bootnotes01 Jan 2025 | 112
UK watchdog launches inquiry into IBM's HashiCorp acquisition
To the surprise of no one, a multi-billion dollar deal comes under CMA scrutiny
Legal31 Dec 2024 | 3
It's only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks
Interview 'The greatest concern is with spear phishing and social engineering'
Security29 Dec 2024 | 58
OpenAI plans to ring in the New Year with a for-profit push
We have altered the deal, pray we don’t alter it any further
AI + ML27 Dec 2024 | 46
Microsoft adds another problem to the Windows 11 24H2 naughty list
Santa Satya pops one more issue into his sack just in time for Christmas
OSes27 Dec 2024 | 86
The winner of last year's Windows Ugly Sweater is ...
Register readers have spoken
Bootnotes25 Dec 2024 | 14
Technical issue briefly grounds American Airlines flights across US
Unspecified "vendor technology" to blame for hour-long stop order
Software24 Dec 2024 | 20
Microsoft Edge takes a victory lap with some high-looking usage stats for 2024
Lots of big numbers, but market share wasn't one of them
Software24 Dec 2024 | 67
Are you better value for money than AI?
Comment Tech vendors start saying the quiet part out loud – do enterprises really need all that headcount?
AI + ML23 Dec 2024 | 102
SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system
Updated A #DOScember surprise: fits on a single floppy, but has a network-capable package manager
OSes23 Dec 2024 | 86
Suspected LockBit dev, facing US extradition, 'did it for the money'
Dual Russian-Israeli national arrested in August
Cyber-crime23 Dec 2024 | 18
Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain
Opinion It's all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want
AI + ML22 Dec 2024 | 142
Apple called on to ditch AI headline summaries after BBC debacle
'Facts can't be decided by a roll of the dice'
AI + ML20 Dec 2024 | 156
Microsoft investigating 365 Office activation gremlin
Says it's not sure what the issue is but points at admins tweaking licensing options
Applications20 Dec 2024 | 24
Adélie Linux 1.0 – small, fast, but not quite grown up
Remarkably compact, remarkably cross-platform, remarkably long beta period
OSes20 Dec 2024 | 31
The Automattic vs WP Engine WordPress wars are getting really annoying
Opinion Forks at dawn.... but it's not great sign for open source
Software20 Dec 2024 | 63
Fedora Asahi Remix 41 for Apple Macs is out
New shiny if you run Linux on an M1 or M2
OSes20 Dec 2024 | 40
Techie fluked a fix and found himself the abusive boss's best friend
On Call And there his troubles began …
Software20 Dec 2024 | 125
Infosec experts divided on AI's potential to assist red teams
CANALYS FORUMS APAC Yes, LLMs can do the heavy lifting. But good luck getting one to give evidence
Security20 Dec 2024 | 10
Microsoft coughs up yet more Windows 11 24H2 headaches
Users report the sound of silence from operating system update
OSes19 Dec 2024 | 76
US bipartisan group publishes laundry list of AI policy requests
Chair Jay Obernolte urges Congress to act – whether it will is another matter
AI + ML19 Dec 2024 | 9
Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control
Feature Dodgy AI chatbots as brains – what could go wrong?
AI + ML19 Dec 2024 | 93
Boffins trick AI model into giving up its secrets
All it took to make an Google Edge TPU give up model hyperparameters was specific hardware, a novel attack technique … and several days
Research18 Dec 2024 | 20
Xfce 4.20 is out: Wayland support lands, but some pieces are still missing
Comment The Unixi-est of desktops gets a wide-ranging update
OSes18 Dec 2024 | 51
We told Post Office about system problems at the highest level, Fujitsu tells Horizon Inquiry
State-owned retail company was not subordinate to Japanese multinational in technical matters, legal rep says
Software18 Dec 2024 | 125
When old Microsoft codenames crop up in curious places
Chicago is my kind of driver model
Offbeat18 Dec 2024 | 69
Nvidia upgrades tiny Jetson Orin Nano dev kits for the holidays
'Super' edition promises 67 TOPS and 102GB/s of memory bandwidth for your GenAI projects
Systems17 Dec 2024 | 14
Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really?
Analysis Not as impenetrable as you might think, but still more than Intel or AMD would like
Systems17 Dec 2024 | 34
Alpine Linux 3.21: Lean, mean, and LoongArch-ready
A cool mountain breeze blowing in after the new LTS kernel
OSes17 Dec 2024 | 16
London's Met Police seeks business services, ERP refresh in £370M deal
Contract could be worth a cool £1 billion if associated organizations join
Databases17 Dec 2024 | 9
AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB
Heir to Superdome goes cloudy for those who run large in-memory databases and apps that need them
Off-Prem17 Dec 2024 | 20
SoftBank pledges to pour $100B into US, create 100,000 jobs in Trump's second term
Details? Who needs 'em! But AI seems a likely focus
AI + ML17 Dec 2024 | 50
Guide for the perplexed – Google is no longer the best search engine
Opinion Seek and ye shall find
Applications16 Dec 2024 | 204
Take a closer look at Nvidia's buy of Run.ai, European Commission told
Updated Campaign groups, non-profit orgs urge action to prevent GPU maker tightening grip on AI industry
Systems16 Dec 2024 | 3
$800 'AI' robot for kids bites the dust along with its maker
Comment - Updated Moxie maker Embodied is going under, teaching important lessons about cloud services
AI + ML16 Dec 2024 | 102
Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work
Who, Me? Working for a startup is supposed to end with getting rich overnight, but not like this
Software16 Dec 2024 | 165
Ingram Micro to 'stop doing business' with Broadcom, downgrade to 'limited engagement' on VMware
Exclusive Distributor couldn't do a deal that delivered 'appropriate shareholder return', chip giant says it 'continues to refine' its channel
Virtualization16 Dec 2024 | 18
Infosys founder calls for 70-hour work week – again – claiming it creates jobs
Asia In Brief Plus: China wants to end AI mashups of classic vids; TSMC set to open Japan fab; and more
On-Prem16 Dec 2024 | 51
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